To the problem of bestowing the identity of a ‘centre’ on the port areas of Deutz that extend for two kilometres along the Rhine the project responds with two eloquent urban models, two centres of attraction. While a fragment of metropolitan complexity, in a piling up of buildings, rises on the junction of the L124 motorway as a New Gateway to the city, it is instead an exercise of urban syntax around the theme of low-density fabric and the layout that shapes a Citygarden in which housing, workplaces and recreational activities face onto the Rhine.